Colin, therefore, had consider a job outside of professional sport and he went for physiotherapy.

The Brentford full back explained: “I would have been a physio. I did a lot of study, even when I was playing in France so I was training in the morning and in the afternoons I was studying.

“Football was more like a hobby but when I had a chance to sign professionally I gave everything.

“When I was young I wasn’t expecting to be professional. It was a dream but you can’t really catch. When I got the opportunity the dream was made and I kept going.

“I had to stop after changing country. I was playing four years in France. I have done my first year in France.

“I still need two years. Maybe when I finish I will do this. Now I’m not in the country I couldn’t keep up in the study.

“I know my body a bit more because I was studying that. The last year I was injured for half a season but I keep saying I’m not injury prone. If we look at my season, I was never injured. I hope it carries on.”